August 20, 2023

Doctors need to remember 'do no harm'

From a legal or moral viewpoint, "First, do no harm" expresses the idea that medical providers' duty runs directly to patients.  A failure of that duty that we all saw during the pandemic was the banishment of patients who wou...

September 1, 2009

No redemption for the wicked

America has duly performed its solemn rituals to mark the passing of Ted Kennedy - the pompous displays, the airy speeches, the pseudo-dignified deference to the dead. What we ought to reflect upon, with equal solemnity, is what America's legitimizat...

August 21, 2009

Twenty-four (more) tweets

Obama tried to steamroll his plan through, without discussion, before the August recess. He now complains there isn't enough "civil debate."     Top Obama whopper: You can keep your health insura...

August 11, 2009

Twenty-one Tweets

Obama asks you to report your neighbors for any anti-Obamacare "disinformation." Seems the next thing he wants to take over is speech.Nancy Pelosi finds comparisons of ObamaCare to the Nazi state beyond the pale. So she accuses critics of O...

March 17, 2009

AIG bonuses are not the problem. Democrats' policies are the problem.

Conservatives railing against AIG bonuses paid to its employees are playing right into Obama's hands, as he too lashes out at AIG in an attempt to deflect attention from his lack of effective action on the economy. In typical fashion, Obama...

June 24, 2007

Goodbye, Sopranos. Will you miss me?

Two weeks since that last episode of the Sopranos, and you're still bitching. Not just disagreeing with David Chase's artistic judgment, but feeling utterly betrayed. As one of you bitter letter writers put it, shows should "...

May 18, 2007

McCain's Tortured Thinking

At the South Carolina Republican Presidential Candidates Debate, moderator Brit Hume posed this hypothetical: Three shopping centers near major American cities have been hit by suicide bombers. Hundreds are dead, thousands injured...

April 24, 2007

Mentors to Mass Murderers

Students in classrooms were taking exams. Others were registering for classes for the coming semester. Still others enjoyed snacks or meals, alone or in the company of friends. Just an ordinary day on an ordinary univers...

April 10, 2007

Who's Next to Host ABC's The View -- David Duke?

Deniers of 9/11 and of the Holocaust are two of a kind. It is a given that television networks put profits above pride, but ABC has reached a new low in its sponsorship of Rosie O'Donnell. The daytime talk show host recently ...

January 12, 2007

Beyond Bias: When the Media Fabricates News

A recent Gallup poll found that 56% of Americans think the media's coverage of events in Iraq is inaccurate, nearly two thirds of those believing that the media portray the situation as worse than it is. A biased, always bad-news-barin...

September 1, 2005

Nothing to say but "I hate you"

When I read that Move America Forward's "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" tour, a counterweight to Cindy Sheehan's hate—America brigade, was stopping for a press conference in nearby Burbank, I made my way there to provide another face in the pro...

February 4, 2005

CBS News and the law

Charles Krauthammer calls it "disgraceful." James Pinkerton says it "reeks" of "coverup." Hugh Hewitt labels it "a whitewash that can be summed up this way: 'Blah, blah, blah, blah.'" All apt descriptions of CBS's "independent" investigation of ...

October 19, 2004

Did Kerry court the Klan?

To understand John Kerry's now—infamous reference to Mary Cheney's lesbianism in debate three, one need consider only this single question: What was his purpose? And certainly, the mention of Dick Cheney's daughter was purposeful. It can't...

October 8, 2004

This time, listen to the words

Ask "who won" the first presidential debate and people will give the undefined question a meaning. Most likely, it will be something relatively trivial like "Who was the better performer or actor?" rather than the weightier "...

September 24, 2004

Bush must be stopped

Lie, cheat, twist, slant, forge —— whatever it takes. Bush must be stopped.   So today's Democrats seem to believe. Law professor Susan Estrich —— her law school ethics classes apparently but a distant memory —...

August 28, 2004

Flip flops and other lies

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth," Franklin D. Roosevelt once said. He might have been talking about John Kerry's tale of his 1968 Christmas supposedly spent in Cambodia, which he's been repeating for twenty five years to anyone who ...

May 14, 2004

Not from MEMRI

Even before the savage display by Arab terrorists of body parts of six Israeli soldiers —— including a severed head —— Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made clear that he may have plans to consign terror leader Yasser Araf...

April 11, 2004

No Nuance

Nicholas Goldberg says that Israel and the US see the world "without nuance." In a recent commentary in the Sunday Los Angeles Times, Goldberg takes Israel —— along with the big Satan —— to task for their inability "to make di...